**** Way back in 1984, Christopher Flavin, the President emeritus of the Worldwatch Institute, ran a pitch that in a few years’ time wind energy would not need to be subsidised. Over 30 years later, and the wind industry the world over still keeps talking itself into circles: one minute it’s ready to take on … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies: A Bottomless Money Pit
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The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
**** True costs of wind electricity Planning Engineer and Rud Istvan 12 May 2015 Climate Etc. Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in many countries as a favorite CAGW mitigation means. Since at least 2010, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been assuring NGOs and the public that wind would be cost competitive … Continue reading The Obscene, Hidden Costs of Wind Power
Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Nightmare Unfolds as Senate Inquiry Hits Portland
*** The Australian Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud kicked off last Monday, 30 March. And, fitting it was, that this band of merry men - Queensland National Senator, Matthew Canavan, WA Liberal, Chris Back, independents Nick Xenophon and John Madigan, Liberal Democrat, David Leyonhjelm, Family First Senator, Bob Day (and one, not-so-happy, … Continue reading Pacific Hydro’s Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm Nightmare Unfolds as Senate Inquiry Hits Portland
Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
Robert Wilson is a PhD Student in Mathematical Ecology at the University of Strathclyde. Robert has a had a little stab at getting behind the greatest fraud of all time; although he's on the right track, he doesn't quite get there, as we'll explain below. Why wind farms can be relied on for almost zero power Robert … Continue reading Wind Power: an Insanely Costly Exercise in Pointless Futility
The Wind Industry Knows No Shame: Turbines to Desecrate the Unknown Graves of Thousands of Australian Soldiers in France
**** This coming Anzac Day, 25 April 2015, looms large in Australia’s history, and collective consciousness, marking the Centenary of Australia’s bloody entry to the War to end all Wars, on the beaches of Gallipoli. Not so much a celebration, as a reflection on the honour, courage and spirit of Australia’s fighting men and women, … Continue reading The Wind Industry Knows No Shame: Turbines to Desecrate the Unknown Graves of Thousands of Australian Soldiers in France
US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive
**** As the world wakes up to scale and scope of the great wind power fraud, the numbers men have started to put pen to paper, in an effort to get a proper bead on the size of the massive subsidies being filched from power consumers and taxpayers, and pocketed by wind power outfits - … Continue reading US Take on the Colossal Subsidies ‘Essential’ For Wind Power Outfits to Survive
Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge
A little while back, a Scottish pen-smith posed a little rhetorical on the subtle art of skulduggery: Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! There have been few industries that have had more practice, and as much success, in that subtle art, as the wind industry. STT has popped … Continue reading Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge
Top Canadian Energy Engineer – Eric Jelinski – Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
Provided they haven't got their trotters in the wind industry subsidy trough, engineers are quicker than most, when it comes to rumbling the great wind power fraud. Practically minded, and with heads for real numbers, engineers are able to pick apart the complete pointlessness of trying to rely on an energy source that will NEVER … Continue reading Top Canadian Energy Engineer – Eric Jelinski – Slams the Great Wind Power Fraud
Alan Jones: Victims – Like Turbine Host David Mortimer – Vindicated by Steven Cooper’s Groundbreaking Wind Farm Study
David Mortimer - a turbine host (ie contracted farmer) for Infigen (see our post here) - was interviewed by Alan Jones on 2GB last week. Alan, first gives great little wrap up of the evidence tying wind turbines to adverse health impacts, going back to Neil Kelley's research in the 1980s and right up to … Continue reading Alan Jones: Victims – Like Turbine Host David Mortimer – Vindicated by Steven Cooper’s Groundbreaking Wind Farm Study
Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
**** The wind industry in Australia is in full-scale panic because the Senate's cross-benchers (who hold the balance of power in the Upper House) have won Coalition support for their Inquiry into the great wind power fraud: which will turn a (long-overdue) blowtorch on the biggest rort in Australian history (see our post here). Adding … Continue reading Alan Jones interviews David Leyonhjelm on the Senate’s Inquiry Into the Great Wind Power Fraud & Cross-Bench LRET Plan
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